Smolar Rejects Belief Tliat JewsHave Strong Lobby in Capitol
24,-Friday, February 7, 1975
NEW YORK (ZINS)—Boris
Smolar, editor emeritus of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
cy, wrote in The Forward
that "the widely-held belief
One good thing that can be
said for taxes—it makes us
all modest about our posses-
that Jews maintain a very
strong lobby in Washington
is not valid•"
He said that "the so-called
Jewish lobby is not that
strong at all. In the greatest
number of congressional dis-
tricts there aren't enough
Jewish voters to make a dif-
ference.
Dayan May Try to Unseat Rabin U.S. to Give
JERUSALEM , (ZINS) — bloc, Likud, with whom he Aid to Syria
Former Defense Minister maintains regular contact.
Moshe Dayan is reportedly
planning to mount a full-
scale political offensive aim-
ed at unseating the Rabin
government, according to
labor party sources.
Dayan is expected to op-
pose further withdrawals
from Sinai and demand in-
creased settlement by Jews
in the provinces of Judea and
Shomron (West Bank). His
moves will be coordinated
with those of the opposition
War in Mideast
Is Not Inevitable'
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dan
Pattir, who is scheduled to
assume the role of an ad-
viser on information to Is-
rael's prime minister and
who is presently chairman of
the Journalists Association in
Israel, said that he disputed
the contention that war in the
Middle East is inevitable and
added that war is not immi-
nent "though the danger is
there."
He added that presently Is-
rael's military strength had
been completely restored and
was satisfactory and, in ad-
dition, there is not a unified
Arab attitude to resort to the
war option at the present
time.
Another factor, according
to Pattir, that made the op-
tion of war remote was the
presence of the two super-
powers in the area.
Latin Jews to Get
WZO School Aid
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
World Zionist Organization
Executive has approved a
Jewish education plan for
Latin America under which
it is hoped to increase the
number of children attending
Jewish schools on that con-
tinent by 12,000 in three
years.
The plan will cost $4 mil-
lion and will be implemented
jointly by the WZO's educa-
tion, Torah education and
youth departments.
Outlined by education de-
partment chairman Haim
Finkelstein and Torah educa-
tion chairman Moshe Kroner,
the plan calls for establish-
ment of 40 new schools, most-
ly in the smaller communi-
ties, and expansion of exist-
ing Jewish schools — with
WZO, and the local commun-
ities joining to help' meet the
increased costs.
Writers Defended
PARIS — Yuli M. Daniel,
who served a five-year labor
camp sentence in the 1960s
for "anti-Soviet writings,"
has defended emigre writers
against charges that - they
have "lost their validity."
Daniel, writing from Mos-
cow, told the Paris newspa-
per LeMonde that emigres
have inseparable ties with
Russia. He was defending
their works against an ar-
ticle written in January in
a Russian emigre journal in
Paris.
Dayan's program is aimed
at creating a situation where
the National Religious Party
will 'back Likud in a motion
of "no-confidence" in govern-
ment, thereby bringing about
the downfall of the Rabin
cabinet.
Burial Caves Found
Near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — A 2,700-
year-old burial ground has
been discovered outside Je-
rusalem's Old City walls on
the slove of Mt. Zion, accord-
ing to archaeologists of the
Hebrew University and the
government antiquities de-
partment.
Two burial caves, dating
to the 7th and 8th centuries
BCE, were accidentally un-
covered in the course of con-
struction work on the road
connecting Jaffa Gate and
Mt. Zion. The road is being
widened to cope with in-
creased traffic.
`U.S. Can Sustain
Israel in New War'
NEW YORK (ZINS) — De-
fense Secretary James R.,
Schlesinger said he was con-
fident the United States "can
provide the resources" to
sustain Israeli forces if there
is another Middle East war.
He did not think a new con-
flict would last more than
three weeks.
Meanwhile, the Administra-
tion informed Congress that
it will sell Israel 200 Lance
misiles. The Lance, a highly
mobile missile with an ef-
fective range of 70 miles, is
just new being introduced
into the U.S. Army. It is
capable of carrying either a
conventional or nuclear war-
head.
Soviet Emigres
Train in Canada
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The State Department, in a
move clearly related to Sec-
retary of State Henry Kis-
singer's forthcoming trip this
month to the Middle East, has
informed Congress it plans to
give Syria $25 million from
a special contingency fund.
Congressional concern over
the fate ' of Syrian Jews led
to inclusion of a special
clause in the foreign aid
authorization a c t requiring
the Administration to inform
Congress 30 days in advance
of any plan to issue grants
from the contingency fund.
During that time, a vote by
both Houses of Congress could
cancel a specific grant.
Rep. Jonathan Bingham
(D-NY) introduced a "sense
of the Congress" amendent
which would bar aid to na-
tions denying or limiting the
right to emigrate.
The purpose of the amend-
ment was to ease the situa-
tion of the 4,000 Jew living
in Syria but, it was under-
stood, the language did not
force the administration to
link aid from the contingency
fund to emigration.
State Department officials
have been urging congress-
men not to raise the issue
of Syrian jewry, arguing this
might make their position
worse.
Bagel Trade Booms
in NY Snack Shop
NEW YORK — The bagel
trade is rolling—especially in
a new chain of snack shops
owned here by an Irishman
and an Italian.
The snack shops, appropri-
ately named Bagel Nosh, will
increase their menus from
the traditional lox and cream
cheese fillings with ham,
roast pork and other such
delicacies. Four meat cheese
and other spreads are served,
and, whitefish, salami and
Jewish favorites will be 'avail-
able.
The chain, with three stores
already open in New York,
will expand to 11 more in
Chicago, Boston, Atlanta,
Denver, Florida and Califor-
nia.
TORONTO (JTA) — Seven-
teen Soviet Jewish doctors
are attending special classes
at the Mount Sinai Hospital
here in which they are re-
ceiving instruction in medi-
cal skills and English from
a group of volunteer Cana-
dian doctors.
They had been unable to
practice as doctors here be- Canada to Examine
cause of their lack of know-
ledge of North American War Criminals
MONTREAL (JTA) — The
medical skills and inadequate
Canadian government has
English.
pledged to examine propos-
als to crack down on former
Yeshiva U. Offers
Nazi war criminals who ob-
Advanced Program tained Canadian citizenship
by concealing their Nazi
. NEW YORK — A joint past.
bachelor-master's program in
The Canadian Jewish Con-
social work has been estab- gress requested the govern-
lished for Yeshiva University ment to abrogate the citizen-
undergraduates.
ship of any person accused
The five-year program will of war crimes who obtained
make it possible for qualified citizenship under false pre-
students to take courses at tenses.
Wurzweiler School of Social
According to the CJC there
Work and apply credit simul- are war criminals among
taneously toward their un- Ukranians, Estonians and
dergraduate degrees at Stern Lithuanians who colaborated
College for Women and Erna with the Nazis during World
Michael College of Hebraic War II and subsequently im-
Studies.
migrated to Canada.
THE -DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
DOWNGRADE
"If the overwhelming ma-
jority of congressmen and
senators vote in Israel's fa-
vor, it is not because they
are subject to 'any Jewish in-
fluence, but rather because
they see the justice of Jewish
claims from the standpoint of
America's vital interests."
Despite assurances given
by President Ford and Dr.
Henry Kissinger that Amer-
ica will continue its policy of
safeguarding the security of
Israel, Jewish leadership is
concerned. According to Smo-
lar, their fears that strong
Arab pressure will influence
Washington to weaken its
pro-Israel position are not en-
tirely baseless.
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